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Teresa

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About Me

Raised in Winnipeg's glorious North End. Graduated from the U of Manitoba with majors in English and History. Studied tae kwon do and photography. Spent an awesome four years broadcasting at CJUM 101.5 UMFM radio (www.umfm.com) and a fifth ranting for the Manitoban student newspaper (www.umanitoba.ca/manitoban).Currently learning to play bass, because rock n' roll needs girls. Also, currently singing in a Ukrainian Catholic church choir, because few things are as sublime.Most recent brilliant idea: to pursue an MA in music history with a thesis on Dymytro Bortniansky.
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My Interests

Music, reading, writing, history, languages, travel, useless trivia, New Orleans, the Monkees; generally geeking out.

Music:

So much stuff...so little space. Many fabulous musicians in my friends' list. :) I love disco and also the cowbell

Movies:

Clue
The Blues Brothers
L.A. Confidential
Memento
Monty Python
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Top of the Food Chain
East of Euclid
Bridget Jones' Diary

Television:

Monk
History's Mysteries
Family Guy
Aqua Team Hunger Force

Books:

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard
Andrew Sandoval's awesome new bio on the Monkees that just arrived in the mail.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Detective fiction, especially Poirot.
Recently enjoyed Steven Levitt's Freakonomics, and now I find myself inexplicably drawn to books on finance.

Heroes:

My urban singleton family
Bridget Jones/Lizzie Bennet
MacGyver
Baby Stewie
Chip Douglas, bassist
Paul Simon
Meatwad
Monkees historian Andrew Sandoval
Rock n' roll historian John Einarson

My Blog

Midwest, Part 1: Copper Mountain to Omaha

Welcome to Omaha! After three glorious days at a the Colorado ski town of Copper Mountain, we've settled into our digs on the eastern border of Nebraska.  Now, with me not being a skier of the do...
Posted by Teresa on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST

Adventures in the Midwest!

Hot off the press!It has just been confirmed that the mini-adventure I've been scheming over in the past couple of weeks has come together. What started as an innocent idea to visit the family in Oma...
Posted by Teresa on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:43:00 PST

Have Internet, Will Blog

In one of those great ironies that life seems to especially enjoy, my Internet stopped working immediately following the brilliant Northern Voice Blogging Conference two weeks ago. However, we are up...
Posted by Teresa on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:27:00 PST

Wielding the proverbial pen

Next weekend marks the third annual Northern Voice Weblogging Conference. Fancy that! An entire day of tasty blog-centric workshops, ranging from software to digital web photography to podcasting. ...
Posted by Teresa on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:46:00 PST

Vancouver beer lovers, rejoice!

When one considers things Ukrainians are stereotypically known for doing well, images of pyrohy, rye bread and vodka usually spring to mind. Naive though I may have been, I was taken aback, when trav...
Posted by Teresa on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:41:00 PST

Ukraine officially recognizes Holodomor as Genocide

The Associated Press announced on Tuesday that the Ukrainian government "adopted a bill recognizing the Soviet-era forced famine as genocide against the Ukrainian people."  While certain concessi...
Posted by Teresa on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:58:00 PST

Holodomor / Famine-Genocide 1932-33

On this, the last weekend of November, we commemorate one of the darkest and least-known tragedies of the past century.  In 1932-33, up to 10 million Ukrainians died in a famine deliberately engi...
Posted by Teresa on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:05:00 PST